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American People Prior to 1500
European Exploration
Early Colonization
Life in the Colonies
French - Indian War
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A diary kept by a person who was on the Mayflower is an example of this.
What is a primary source?
100
Native Americans died of this as a result of the Columbian Exchange.
What is disease?
100
The need for access to resources suitable for agriculture motivated Early North American Colonists to settle near these.
What are rivers?
100
This was the slogan of the Triangular Trade.
What is "molasses to rum to slaves"?
100
The Iroquois Confederacy supported this group during the French and Indian War.
Who are the English?
200
A person who studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
What is an economist?
200
As a result of Christopher Columbus' voyages to the Americas this group of people began to explore the Americas.
Who are Europeans?
200
In this 1620 document, colonists agreed to remain loyal to England and create laws for the good of the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
This was the horrific trip from the West Coast of Africa to the East Coast of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
A major result of the French and Indian War was that France gave Canada to this country.
What is England/the British?
300
The Inuit people live in igloos made of _________ because it is available in the arctic region they inhabit.
Ice/snow
300
While in Central America, explorers encountered the people of these two empires.
What are Maya and Aztec?
300
Most of the settlements in New Netherlands were located along this river.
What is the Hudson?
300
During the colonial period, most slaves worked on these.
What are southern plantations?
300
After the French and Indian War, the British began to levy these on American colonists in order to repay war debts.
What are taxes?
400
This group of Native American tribes wanted to end wars among members and defend against outsiders.
What is the League of Iroquois?
400
Native Americans lost their land, new diseases were introduced, and the African slave trade expanded because of this.
What is European exploration of the Americas?
400
This is the major reason that the original settlers of Plymouth Colony, Maryland and Pennsylvania came to America.
What is freedom from religious persecution?
400
New York, New Jersey, and Delaware are part of this group of Colonies.
What is Middle Colonies?
400
John Peter Zenger is credited with establishing this in the thirteen colonies.
What is freedom of press?
500
Native Americans lived along these bodies of water.
What are rivers.
500
A person who sold his labor for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to the New World.
What is an indentured servant?
500
This was the first Dutch settlement in what is now New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
500
These three products were most important to the Southern colonies.
What are tobacco, indigo and rice?
500
This document called for a joint colonial council for defense.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?